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Mitchell, Philip – Vocational Aspect of Education, 1986
Issues related to an open learning program, the West Yorkshire Open Learning Federation, are explored. Issues include (1) institutional framework for course, (2) approach to "openness" and implications regarding the target population, and (3) accreditation and monitoring. Stresses that acceptability of educational outcomes requires flexibility in…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
Peer reviewedSmith, Lydia A. H. – Teachers College Record, 1997
Examines the rise and fall of the open education movement of the 1960s and 1970s, considering the lessons that current school reformers might take from it. The paper notes that contemporary educational research indicates children can and should be taught in the ways they learn best, and it is time to reconsider the benefits of open education. (SM)
Descriptors: British Infant Schools, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textAnzalone, Steve, Ed. – 1995
Drafted for the Learning Technologies for Basic Education project, this document assembles case studies which provide an overview of multichannel learning, or reinforce learning through the use of several instructional paths and various media including print, broadcast, and online. Through the cases, multichannel learning is depicted as an…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developing Nations
